<p>I dunno, newmassdad. It’s the same NYT article – I bought it at the store Sunday morning, but the Education Supplement was probably online Wednesday or Thursday. I’m not going to go back and read it again, but I thought it pretty much made Chicago a poster child for beating the bushes to find more applicants. Not that it was the only one, but it was featured because it had the biggest recent changes (of people, Behnke/O’Neill -> Nondorf; of policy, Uncommon -> Common; and of course of numbers). Also because, for better or worse, Nondorf seems to have a reputation as Mr. Application Volume. I also thought the article was fair in providing the rationale that Chicago was less well known to students who ought to be considering it, and also that maybe it was broadening its appeal. Chicago wasn’t exactly accused of soliciting no-chance applications . . . and Harvard was.</p>